Fishing float



June22, 1943. c. A. KURZ 2322241 FISHING FLOAT Filed March 24, 1941 Patented June 22, 1943 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FISHIING FLOAT Christian A. Kurz, Dayton, 01110 Application March 24, 1941, Serial N0. 384,843

10 Claims.

This invention pertains to fishing floats and more particularly to attachment means and an improved method of engaging a fishing line therewith in such relation that the float is easily and rea.dily adjustable longitudinally of the line, but is securely held in its adjusted relation.

The particular fishing float in association with which the present invention is illustrated, comprises a double tapered hollow body, preferably formed with longitudinally disposed radially projecting fins.

Such fishing float, per se, forms no part of the present invention, which relates o interlocking the fishing line with the float by engagingit in reversely disposed marginal notches in the fins adjacent each end of the fioat and spirally wrapping the line about the float body intermediate such points of engagement.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple but efficient means for adjustably engaging a fishing1ine with a'float for to and fro adjustment along the line, but which will hold the float securely in its adjusted position.

A further object of the inven'cion is to provide engaging means with which the line may be easily and quickly engagecl and disengaged.

A further object of the invention is to provide 1ine attaching means which will enable the float to be readily adjusted along the lme and secured without; the necessity of detaching the line therefrom.

A further important feature of the invention is the herein disclosed method of engaging the line with the float to automatieally lock the float by pulling strain on the line.

A further object of the invention is to provide a line attaching means for fishing fioats possessfing the advantageous structural features and inherent meritoriqus characteristics herein mentioned.

With the above primary and other incidental objects in view as will more fully appear in the specification, the invention intended to be proteeted by Letters Patent consists cf the features 0f construction, the parts and combinations thereof, and the mode of operation, or their equivalents, as hereinafter described. or illustrated in the accompanying drawing.

Referring 130 the drawing wherein is illustrated the preferred, but obviously not necessa.rily the only form of embodiment; of the invention,

Fig. 1 is a. perspective view of a fishing fioat embodying the present invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail side terminal portion of the float.

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Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on line 33 cf Fig. 2.

Like parts are indicated by like characters of reference throughout the several views.

The particular float illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawing, comprises two elongated hollow cones I-I which are pre ferably, although not necessarily, formed from initially plastic molding material. The hollow cones I are assembled in end to end axial alignment with their base terminals connected one to the other. A coupling member 2 is preferably interposed between the c'ones, although the latter ma.y be directly connected to each other without such interposed coupling deviee.

Each of the hollow cones l is formed with longitudinal oppositely extending radial fins 3-3 disposed in a common diametrical plane. Such fins serve to steady the float in the water and minimize rotation and retard drift. The terminals of the fins are reinforced beyond the apices of t;he cones by registering ribs 4 on opposite sides thereof.

The fins ab each terminal of the float are Drovided with reversely arranged key hole notches 5 which intersect the margins of the fins. These notehes are not only reversely disposed, but they are preferably longitudinally offset or staggered.

The intersection portions of the notches 5 a.re outwardly flaring and communicate with the eyes of such slots through restricted throats.

This enables easy engagement of the line 6 within the orific =s of the notdhes but necessitates forcing the 1ine past the throat into the eye of the notch. y

T0 engage the float with the line 6 for longitudinal adjustment thereon, the 11ne is engaged in first one and then the other of the notches 5 in the fins 3 at one end o1 the float. It 1s then given a. couple 015 turns l about the reversely tapered middle of the float, thereafter, it is engaged as before in the oppositely turned notches 5 in the fins at the other end thereof. The enlarged eye and narrow communicating throat of the notch effectively resists accidental disengagement of of the line from the eye of the notch, although it is easily passed thereint0.

When so engaged, any attempt to pull the line 5 in either direction past the float, or conversely to slide the float in either direction on. the 1ine, merely causes a. decided tightening of the turns I of 1ine about the body of the float and wlthin the notches. However, by taking hold of a turn I of the 1ine, lt may be very easily pulled from either end of the float through the eyes of the notches. So long as slack is maintained in. the turns l, the float may be slidingly adjusted in either direction, or surplus line may be pulled from one end toward the middle 01 the float, tlms extending the slack of the turns, and then lt may be pulled from the opposite end away from the fioat. However, when all the slack has been taken out of the turns l the line binds upon the fioat so as to resist strongly any further relative adjustment.

The present invention perisains to the manner of securing the line to the float. including the provision of the key hole slots 5 in intersecting relation with the ma1eins of the fins. The particular construction of the float, per se, forms the subject matter of a separate concurrent application, Serial N0. 402,604, flled July 16, 1941.

From the above description lt will be apparent that there is thus provided a device of the character described possessing the particular features of advantage before enilmerated as desirable, but which obviously is susceptible oi modification in its form, proportions, detail construction and arrangement of parts without departing from the principle involved or sacriflcing an; of its advantages.

While in order to comply with the statute, the invention has been described in language more or lass spe(:ific as to structural features, lt is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the specific features shown, but that the means and construction herein disclosed comprise the pre'ferred form of several modes of putting the invention into eilect, and the invention is therefore claimed in any of its forms or modifications within the legitimate and valid scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. A fishing float, including terminal flat fins, reversely arrangecl key hole notches in the fins intersecting .the margins thereof having flaring entrance orifices for the line and restricted throats communicating with the eyes of such key hole slots in which a flshing line is successively engageable and between which the line extends through at least one turn about the float.

2. The combination with a doubly tapered fishing float having longitudinal radially extending fins, of pairs of reversely disposed key hole notches in the fins at each end of the float intersecting the margins of the fins for engagement therein 015 a Ilshlng line.

3. A ilshing float, longitudinal radially extending fins thereon and marginal notches in the fins adjacent opposite ends of the float for engagement of a fishing line therein.

4. A fishing float, longitudinal radially extending fins carried thereby and key hole shaped notches in the fins at opposite ends of the fioat for engagerhent of a flshing iine therein.

5. As an article of manufacture, one of a pair of detachably interengageable mernbers comprising a body of molded plastic material including a relatively thin flat marginal portion having a key hole slot therein intersecting the edge thereoi' including a flaring entrance oriflce and a restricted throat communicating with the eye of seid key hole slot through which the companion member of the detachably interengageable pair may be introduced.

6. A flshing float or the like, including a body portion, thin, flat, longitudinal fins upon the body portion in an axial plane thereof and a pair of reversely disposed key hole sl0ts intersecting the oppositely disposed margins of the fins for donble engagement therewith of a flsh line.

7. A fishing float or the like, including an elongated body portion, and thin, flat, longitudinally disposed fins upon the body portion in an axial plane thereof and terminally extending beyond the ends of the body portion, and means enabling the engagement of a flshing 1ine with the float.

8. A fishirm float. including an elongated buoyant body and flat terminal extensions thereon having reversely directed marginal notches thereon at each end of the elongated buoyant body.

9. A fishing float, including a buoyant body and integral rigid, flat fins disposed in radial relation with the axis of the buoyant body, the fins having marginal notches therein for connecting a line to the float.

10. A fishing float including an elongated buoyant body, integral rigid, flat fins extending beyond the terminals of the buoyant body, having reversely disposed key hole shaped notches intersecting the margins of the fins at opposite ends of the buoyant body.

CHRISTIAN A. KURZ. 

